Children’s Commissioner: 'What children tell me they want is a home and adults to be their adults'
The first of our Today listener guest edits is called ‘Messy Fostering’.
Today listener Amy, her foster mother Gig and one of her teachers Jo, who looked after her in the holidays, have used their programme to look at the highs and lows of fostering.
For their programme Dame Rachel de Souza, the children's commissioner for England, told the ѿý that the care system could learn from the ѿýs for Ukraine scheme.
In that scheme UK sponsors agreed to house refugees fleeing the war with Russia for a minimum of six months.
Speaking to Ashley John-Baptiste, Dame Rachel says “there is an untapped well of possibility in this country”.
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